Leaked report indicates the CIA seems to have misled the Bush administration about its use of tortur - Polidicks

[URL="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/leaked-documents-show-cia-misled-bush-administration-brutal-enhanced-interrogation-techniques/"]Leaked report: CIA misled Bush administration on 'brutal' interrogation techniques[/URL] [QUOTE]A controversial torture report by the Senate Intelligence Committee paints a pattern of CIA deception about the effectiveness of waterboarding and other brutal interrogation methods used on terror suspects after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to leaked findings. The committee said it will ask the Justice Department to investigate how the material was published. The McClatchy news service late Thursday published what it said are the voluminous, still-classified review's 20 findings. It concludes that the "enhanced interrogation techniques" failed to produce valuable intelligence; the CIA misled the Bush administration, Congress and the public about the value of the harsh treatment; the agency employed unauthorized techniques on detainees and improperly detained others; and it never properly evaluated its own actions. Both the CIA's interrogation techniques and confinement conditions "were brutal and far worse than the agency communicated to policymakers." The reported findings are consistent with what senators have detailed about the investigation since its 2009 inception and with what numerous news reports, human rights organizations and various governmental and non-governmental studies have suggested in the decade since the CIA's program started to coming to light. President Barack Obama has likened the harsh interrogations to torture, but the spy agency defends its actions and says much in the Senate committee's report is inaccurate. The committee voted last week to declassify the summary and conclusions of the 6,600-page review and is now waiting for the Obama administration to censor material sensitive to national security.[/QUOTE] It's time to put the leashes back on the monsters after they came off post-9/11. This is becoming an embarrassment to humanity.

You'd think we'd begin to expect things like this after finding out that multiple intelligence agencies have routinely lied not only in public statements, but to Congress as well. Still looking forward to some people in the media defending this, saying that it's not torture but instead, "Enhanced interrogation techniques." It just so happens to be a means of coercing answers out of people via the use of physical suffering, which somehow isn't the definition for torture to some people.

Someone caught the CIA being inhuman slimy scumbags? Nobody is surprised. They've been operating outside the law and doing damn distasteful things since their inception, nothing anyone says or does is going to stop them.

I don't think Bush was deceived, especially after the CIA atrocities that came to light during his presidency. He could've easily verified the claims of the CIA but simply didn't care to question it probably because he supported the actions himself as he tried to defend Gitmo under the basis that "These people being tortured hate I and your freedom"

congress is on the ball about something for once

[QUOTE=Starpluck;44540856]I don't think Bush was deceived, especially after the CIA atrocities that came to light during his presidency. He could've easily verified the claims of the CIA but simply didn't care to question it probably because he supported the actions himself as he tried to defend Gitmo under the basis that "These people being tortured hate I and your freedom"[/QUOTE] That's a weird intersection between confirmation bias and sycophancy.

and the fucking bird goes tweet

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;44540955]That's a weird intersection between confirmation bias and sycophancy.[/QUOTE] Politicians routinely pin blame on others as part of the job, and intelligence agencies that are too wrapped up in secrecy to deny allegations are the perfect target. Do you really think it's unreasonable to be skeptical of the idea that the Bush administration had no idea what was going on?

And yet George Dubya is permitted to sit around in Texas making lame paintings, instead of being charged with war crimes and imprisoned. Presidential etiquette be damned, the FIRST action of Obama's presidency should have been to order the arrest of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, and everyone else that oversaw torture and lied the country into a war that killed a hundred thousand innocent people.